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Hillocks, the grand-daddy of research on teaching writing, challenges teachers to think about writing instruction as instruction that includes inquiry about something. In other words, students need to write about something they've invest...

Hillocks, in perhaps his most accessible work, argues that writing instruction and learning might best begin with narration. Students have stories to tell and, through the telling of those stories, students can learn about the craft of w...

In this work based on a comprehensive study, Judith Langer explains what effective literacy instruction looks like. Most importantly, she urges teachers to help their students achieve "high literacy," a kind of literacy that includes spe...

Strategic Reading is one of the best books, if not the best book, on reading instruction. The authors deftly explain Vygotskian Learning Theory, instructional scaffolding as well as other important literacy concepts. If you have time to ...

Flow gets at what people feel when they are engaged in optimal experiences. Literacy researchers have used the idea of flow to help teachers think about engaging students in the optimal experiences recounted in flow.